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I've got a Synology NAS and I keep OneDrive for documents I might need in case of emergency.

Dropbox has no reason to exists for me. Firstly, they want to force me which filesystem to use on my Linux box, secondly, I already have plenty of GBs on Google Drive and MS OneDrive, so why would I need another service is beyond me. I mean, it's not like Dropbox is a safe encrypted alternative to GDrive or OneDrive anyway...

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They do provide provide first-party Linux support, which Google and Microsoft lack.

What other reason should I have for trusting Microsoft or Google over Dropbox? (Serious question, I've been considering my cloud sync provider recently).

There are working open source clients for OneDrive. You can just encrypt the data you pump into OneDrive (or any cloud provider you don't trust) and just use it for quick online access and then sync everything into your local NAS/server.

Exactly this.

I have my data on my NAS and I keep on Onedrive and GDrive only what I might need while around.

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